Panelka (Cinematic Eastern Bloc | Concrete Melancholy)

A realistic LoRA for creating atmospheric post-soviet urban environments.

Works with FLUX.1-dev and QWEN-IMAGE.

This LoRA captures the haunting aesthetic of post-Soviet and Eastern Bloc urban landscapes, specializing in brutalist architecture, melancholic atmospheres, and the unique visual language of concrete panel housing estates (panelkas). Trained on a comprehensive dataset of 300+ meticulously captioned images, this model excels at generating atmospheric scenes that evoke the distinctive character of Soviet-era modernist architecture and urban environments.

Technical Notes:

• Different captioning approaches were used for FLUX and QWEN training data to optimize each model's specific architecture and tokenization patterns

• Subjectively, QWEN on BF16 produces more striking and impressive results with enhanced atmospheric depth and visual impact

• Examples below and in the gallery include detailed settings and prompts for each version (FLUX.1-dev and QWEN-IMAGE) to help you achieve optimal results